The Balmoral Classic

Battlefield Band comes to Pittsburgh on Saturday, November 13, 2010

Who: Scotland’s legendary Battlefield Band. Read artists’ bios. Watch video.

“Best live act.” Scots Trad Music Awards 

“Wondrous.” The Washington Post

“Wowed the full house.” Anchorage Daily News

“Exhilarating music.” The Observer (United Kingdom)

“Easily married passion, energy and joy. A fantastic musical bouquet.” La Presse de la Manche (France)

“One of the great institutions of the Scottish music scene.” BBC Music Review

When: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 8pm.

Where: McGonigle Theatre at Central Catholic High School in Oakland, 4720 Fifth Avenue (at South Neville Street), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. Directions ...

Tickets on sale now: $25 door, $20 advance, $15 groups (10 or more) and students. Reserved seats + free parking.
  

Under their banner “Forward with Scotland’s Past,” Battlefield Band have been performing on the international scene for more than three decades, inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength of the modern Scottish cultural scene. The band, who pioneered the integration of bagpipes with fiddle, keyboards, guitar and voice, mix the old songs and tunes with new self-penned material, playing them on a unique fusion of ancient and modern instruments: bagpipes, synthesizers, fiddles, guitars, cittern, bass, whistles, and bouzouki.

Join them in this special do-not-miss concert as the say farewell to their founder Alan Reid and welcome their newest member Ewen Henderson on fiddle, bagpipes, whistle, piano, and vocals. On this one-of-a-kind tour, this means there will be not four, but five musicians and not two, but up to three performers on Highland pipes. It is especially fitting that this concert will be held at the recently renovated McGonigle Theatre concert hall of Central Catholic High School, with its new state-of the-art sound system, seats, and lighting system. It is the place that Battlefield Band first performed in Pittsburgh.